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Content tagged: assess student learning

Five Steps to Improving Program-Level Assessment Practices

Article: Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

Student learning outcomes assessment can be defined in a lot of different ways, but Lisa R. Shibley, PhD., assistant vice president for Institutional Assessment and Planning at Millersville University, has ... Read full story »

5 Steps to Renew Program-Level Learning Outcomes Assessment

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Now is the time to review your assessment process and strategies 5 Steps to Renew Program-Level Learning Outcomes Assessment You regularly assess student learning outcomes at your institution, but ... Learn more »

Inquiry into the College Classroom

Article: Thursday, May 20th, 2010

Are our students learning? Are they developing? Are we having an impact? These questions are only a small sample of those that faculty ask before, during, and after each course ... Read full story »

Giving Students Multiple Attempts to Improve Test Scores Provides a Powerful Learning Opportunity

Article: Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

Using multiple test trials was something I had never considered until found myself in a newly assigned course with an old syllabus. The previous course, which consisted of 310 total ... Read full story »

Improving Your Assessment Processes: Q&A with Linda Suskie

Article: Monday, January 4th, 2010

It’s a new year, but the same old challenges exist. Given today’s financial constraints, colleges and universities are working harder than ever to be careful stewards of limited resources and ... Read full story »

So You Have Assessed Student Learning. Now What?

Article: Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

Of all the activities that go into educational assessment, ironically two of most rewarding also are two of the most overlooked: 1). sharing the results with stakeholders and 2). using ... Read full story »

For the Best Assessment Standards Try the Combo Platter

Article: Monday, September 28th, 2009

If there’s a holy grail in higher education, it just might be the perfect assessment benchmark. From local and external standards to norm-referenced and value-added benchmarks, to name just a ... Read full story »

Using Clickers to Assess and Engage Student Learning

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Get Best practices for integrating clicker technology into your classroom Using Clickers to Assess and Engage Student Learning “Clickers” are quickly becoming vital teaching tools for engaging and involving ... Learn more »

Designing Effective Assessments: Q&A with Trudy Banta

Article: Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

In their new book, Designing Effective Assessment: Principles and Profiles of Good Practice, Trudy Banta, Elizabeth Jones, and Karen Black provide assessment profiles from a wide variety of institutions and ... Read full story »

Strategies for Overcoming Resistance to Assessment

Article: Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

It is only a slight exaggeration to say that resistance to educational assessment comes from almost as many different sources as there are assessment tools, but the reasons all boil ... Read full story »

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